The past in the present :
Traba, Robert.
The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / Robert Traba ; translated by Alex Shannon. - 1 online resource (335 pages). - Eastern European culture, politics and societies, volume 8 2192-497X ; . - Eastern European culture, politics and societies ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Polish dilemmas : practice and theory -- Two dimensions of history : an opening sketch -- History as a space for dialogue -- Poland's Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) : realms of memory in the process of cultural reproduction -- Constructing memory : a semantic analysis of Polish celebrations on the anniversary of Grunwald -- Stefan Czarnowski and the continued relevance of his theories in contemporary historical thought : a sketch portrait of a sociologist -- Part II. Poles and Germans : theory -- "The other side of memory" : historical experiences and their remembrance in Central-Eastern Europe -- Realms of memory (lieux de mémoire) in the context of German-Polish relations -- Quo vadis regional history? -- Cultural memory, communicative memory : theory and practice in the work of Jan Assmann -- Golo Mann : a turn toward narrative history and an "obsession with Germany" -- Part III. Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.
9783653024357 (e-book)
Historiography--Poland.
Memory--Political aspects--Poland.
Poland--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DK4139 / .T7313 2015eb
943.80072
The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / Robert Traba ; translated by Alex Shannon. - 1 online resource (335 pages). - Eastern European culture, politics and societies, volume 8 2192-497X ; . - Eastern European culture, politics and societies ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Polish dilemmas : practice and theory -- Two dimensions of history : an opening sketch -- History as a space for dialogue -- Poland's Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) : realms of memory in the process of cultural reproduction -- Constructing memory : a semantic analysis of Polish celebrations on the anniversary of Grunwald -- Stefan Czarnowski and the continued relevance of his theories in contemporary historical thought : a sketch portrait of a sociologist -- Part II. Poles and Germans : theory -- "The other side of memory" : historical experiences and their remembrance in Central-Eastern Europe -- Realms of memory (lieux de mémoire) in the context of German-Polish relations -- Quo vadis regional history? -- Cultural memory, communicative memory : theory and practice in the work of Jan Assmann -- Golo Mann : a turn toward narrative history and an "obsession with Germany" -- Part III. Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.
9783653024357 (e-book)
Historiography--Poland.
Memory--Political aspects--Poland.
Poland--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DK4139 / .T7313 2015eb
943.80072